I definitely have a dark side. For as long as I can remember I have loved scary and/or weird stuff, starting with Nancy Drew and John Bellairs (remember The House With a Clock in its Walls? Spooky!), moving on to Nightmare on Elm Street and anything by Stephen King, James Lee Burke or Jonathan Kellerman, and now Lee Child. I… Read more »
Clan Realm Lovejoy Publication date: November 12th 2013 Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult “Highly enjoyable, thought-provoking sci-fi by an author with considerable talent and promise.”–Kirkus Reviews ____ Clans are Unity. No variation. No deviation. On Clades, to be a Clan is to be an exact copy. A perfect society cloning themselves to survive, even as the zombielike Frags threaten to… Read more »
How Fiction Built/Builds Our World Part 1 Stories… fiction… drama and entertainment. Maybe a spot of education too. These are the things that we superficially get from the storytellers of our species. In truth though… we get a whole more than that. Indeed, it is the imagineers of who built the world we live in with the ideas that they sold… Read more »
As promised, it’s Mystery Thriller Week Today (Feb 12th) through the 23rd February Please see below for our schedule of events, But don’t forget to visit MTW for A schedule of the entire week’s events. 2/12/17 Guest Post – Michael Smoremburg – How Fiction Built/Builds Our World Part 1 2/13/17 Guest Post – Kelley Kaye – Guest… Read more »
SeQuence Aligned (The Heart of the Ocean #2) by Lorraine M.L.M. Genre: YA Fantasy/Romance Release Date: February 1st 2017 Summary from Goodreads: Alessia and Dante’s love has blossomed. Their Sequence of Hearts is sturdier than ever, but the shield that protects Tuscania is weakening and an invasion is imminent. Everyone knows Alessia’s new-found power is the key–especially Alessia. Unfortunately, the… Read more »
The Story of Us D. Nichole King Publication date: February 9th 2017 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance Moments. Every life is made of thousands of them, each one strung together with the next. Some are yellow and happy, some are blue and sad, and some… Some wipe out color altogether. “I love you,” is what I should have told Maverick…. Read more »
Obsidian Sky Amy Braun (Dark Sky #3) Publication date: February 7th 2017 Genres: Dystopian, Fantasy, Young Adult The final struggle against the Hellions has arrived. A trapped engineer and a desperate marauder scramble to fight an enemy with unspeakable power on its side. Time is running out, and one world will be destroyed… After sacrificing herself to save the lives… Read more »
Memortality Stephen H. Provost Publication date: February 1st 2017 Genres: Fantasy, New Adult, Paranormal Minerva Rus can raise the dead. And it might get her killed. Minerva’s life has never been the same since the childhood car accident that paralyzed her and killed her best friend, Raven. But when the long-dead Raven reappears in her life, now as a very… Read more »
Bryce Nana Malone Publication date: February 7th 2017 Genres: New Adult, Romance, Sports Money, power, prestige…failure. Bryce Coulter is The Player. Don’t call it a come back….Because no one else is. Poised to live up to his legacy, tennis player, Bryce Coulter, loses it all on one swing. Now, with the pressure on and his future in jeopardy, the last… Read more »
Something Like Voodoo Rebecca Hamilton Publication date: February 7th 2017 Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult From New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Hamilton High School can be a witch. A teen girl with the ability to predict deaths through her drawings shouldn’t need to lie constantly to make her life sound interesting. But that doesn’t stop Emily from spinning stories faster… Read more »
A Way Back Into Love Veronica Thatcher (Love, #1) Publication date: February 15th 2017 Genres: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes, uncertain. People, irrational. But love…well, that makes everything complicated. And when you are caught in a tangled web of secrets, lies, and complex affairs, someone is bound to get burned. Emily… Read more »
Romeo and What’s Her Name Shani Petroff Published by: Swoon Reads Publication date: February 7th 2017 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult Understudies never get to perform . . . which is why being Juliet’s understudy in the school’s yearly “Evening with Shakespeare” is the perfect role for Emily. She can earn some much-needed extra credit while pursuing her main goal… Read more »
Seduced Suzannah Daniels (Whiskey Nights, #5) Publication date: April 11th 2017 Genres: New Adult, Romance Landing a photo shoot with a hot lingerie model is every guy’s fantasy. And that includes Evan Mayfield. He expects nothing more than an interesting gig and a quick paycheck, but once the photographer starts snapping pictures, Evan realizes the job is going to be… Read more »
SeQuence Aligned (The Heart of the Ocean #2) by Lorraine M.L.M. Genre: YA Fantasy/Romance Release Date: February 1st 2017 Summary from Goodreads: Alessia and Dante’s love has blossomed. Their Sequence of Hearts is sturdier than ever, but the shield that protects Tuscania is weakening and an invasion is imminent. Everyone knows Alessia’s new-found power is the key–especially Alessia. Unfortunately, the… Read more »
